THOMAS RICHARD ARCHER BRIGGS. 1038 
Plymouth than we had observed in the i roger neighbourhood, 
and the flora altogether was poorer. But we were able to explore 
further, and he was igo at interested i - tesoing the ee of 
Hypericum undulatum northward and eastward in the county. This 
species we had searched for in vain in the Teign Valley, and so 
Briggs’ own ao at Ivybridge were the most eastwardly yet 
known in Britain. In the Upper Tamar Valley it proved much 
we trace D 
nd 1888 he visited the Rev. R. P. Murr deny ikon n lived in 
Wells, and with him made excursions in several ee expressly 
for the purpose of examining the Rubi of the county he 
assistance thus obtained from him is gratefully acknowledged by 
erse 
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ite with Mr. Murray in 1883. From his paper, ‘ Lobelia 
rens L. in Cornwall,” printed in this Journal at the end of that 
year, we learn how, acting on information received from 
Murr reef he made his emo expedition into E. Cornwall in 
—- at delig 
‘was later i in the year ‘than usual, 
festivities ; 
oa at one of our ego ont gatherings in the school-room 
he delivered a lectur ‘Thomas Tusser, Farmer, Poe t and 
Musician, of 300 eit 6? He had been very sceptical as ia his 
power of interesting a ene agricultural audience, such as alone 
I could there bring together. But, I am m thankful to say, he had 
no rea the mo 
intelligent of them, at all events, were gratified by a fous of 
ntertainment of which they had had no previous experienc 
. The readers of this J ae will hardly need to be reminded how 
continuous and varied was the stream of his contributions to its 
Meet from the first. "These contributions are in the hands of 
all ; such papers as his ‘“‘ Queries in Local Topographical 
Botany,” read at the Plymouth Atheneum, are not likely to be so 
generally known, and a brief quotation or two from these may 
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+: 
Bridge an urton, a distance of two miles over limestone, the 
plant occurs only in one or two partially shaded spots ; and nowhere 
between Laira Bridge and Plymstock, so far as my observation goes. 
The fact that it does not refuse to grow on limestone, if shade and 
shelter are present, seems to favour the idea that it is the dry 
* [They are referred to in this Journal for 1882, p, 376,—Ep. Journ. Bot.] 
